Table 2-14. PCL Feature Additions for HP Color LaserJet Printer (continued)

Feature

Status

Comments

PC (Pen Color—HP-GL/2)

New

Changes the pen color in a palette created by the IN or CID

 

 

command (?*v#W).

Push/Pop Palette

New

Pushes or pops the palette from the palette stack.

Raster Scaling

New/Modified

Several commands are added for raster scaling: Destination

 

 

Raster Width (?*t#H), Destination Raster Height (?*t#V);

 

 

also, two parameters are added to the Start Raster Graphics

 

 

command to initiate scaling (?*r2A and ?*r3A). (See the PCL

 

 

5 Color Technical Reference Manual for more information.)

Render Algorithm

New

Selects the algorithm to be used for rendering page marking

 

 

entities on a given page.

Select Palette by ID

New

Activates a palette with the specified ID number.

Set Viewing Illuminant

New

Specifies the relative white point used in the determination of

 

 

a viewing illuminant condition.

Simple Color

New

Specifies an unmodifiable fixed-size palette.

Transfer Raster Graphics (by

New

Provides a means to send raster data by color plane. This

plane)

 

command sends a plane of raster data to the printer and

 

 

advances to the next plane.

AppleTalkConfiguration

Command

As discussed in the HP LaserJet 4 section of this chapter, the AppleTalk Configuration command allows a user to send PCL jobs to the printer over AppleTalk. In addition to the key values previously discussed (RENAME, TYPE, and JOB), the HP Color LaserJet printer also supports the ZONE key value as follows.

ZONE

ZONE changes the zone field of the printer’s AppleTalk Network Identifier (Name Binding Protocol type field).

?&b#WZONE<sp>zonename

Valid characters for the zone name include 0-255 except for characters $00, “@” ($40), “:” ($3A), “*” ($2A), “=” ($3D), $C5, and ($FF). The zone name must contain at least one character, and only the first 31 characters are used. If the zone is invalid, then the printer’s zone is not changed. Zone changes only occur after the present job has completed.

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